Nutcracker



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RUSSEL FRISBIE, OF MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT.

NUTCRACKER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 24,018, dated May 17, 1859.

To all whom it mayV concern:

Be it known that I, RUSSEL FRISBIE, of Middletown, in the county ofMiddlesex, in the State of Connecticut, have invented a new and ImprovedMachine for Cracking Nuts; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full and eXact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its const-ruction and operation.

Figure 1 is a plan or top view. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation,showing the cam lever, joints, jaws, &c.; the dotted lines show theseveral parts in their position ready to receive the nuts to be cracked.Fig. 3 is a side elevation of my invention, showing all the partscomplete.

I make my invention of any suitable material, having the base ofsuitable form, as

at Figs. 1, 2, and 3, upon which I place a stationary jaw b, Figs. 2,and 3, and bearings for joints c and a, Figs. 2 and 8, of the cam leverc and movable jaw f, Figs.

l, 2 and 3. In the bearings c, Figs. 2 and 3,

I place the journals of my cam lever e, the cam part of which works in aplace made to receive itin the movable jaw. By elevating RUSSEL FRISBIE.

In presence of- MARIA W. BARNES, JONATHAN BARNES.

